Jesus Loves the Little Children

It was another early start to the day as the team divided into two groups to work. The first group made up of 6 made their way out to the AM tower site to do more projects. The outside work consisted of painting several of the out buildings as well as taking care of some adjustments and repairs to some of the guide wires. After lunch, the crew came back and did more work at the radio station in helping to repair several rotted fence posts and paint several areas on the building that needed some attention. 

The second group worked at the radio station on production materials. Katie and Josh interviewed Pastor Martin who has an absolutely amazing testimony of how the Lord saved him out of the Rasta culture and now Pastor Martin is a follower of Jesus. What a story of grace! 

After lunch, the radio station crew traveled back across the island to Grace Christian Academy to help in the after school reading program. We had about 30 children in attendance and our job was just to provide a listening ear to those children who were working on their reading skills. It was a blessing for me to be able to sit with two different children and hear them read stories about Christians of the faith. Hearing them read and further understand biblical characters just filled my heart with excitement. 

As book club ended, we were on our way to another opportunity to serve in a special way. One of the teachers at Grace has a daughter with special needs. After chapel yesterday, she approached us and asked if we could travel to her daughter's care facility to sing to her and spend some time with her. We were thrilled to do so! When we go there, the nurses welcomed us and brought about 10 different children into the room to spend time with us. We were all moved to tears as we sang song after song with these dear kids. We had a spirited time of singing and clapping. What a sight to see the joy of the Lord in these kids. Here they face obstacles everyday and yet they still sang, clapped and danced to truths like "Jesus Loves the Little Children" and "My God is so Big." After over an hour of singing, we said our goodbyes and piled back into the van to head back to the mission house. We were so refreshed. 

Tonight, we spent some time singing together and hanging out. It is hard to believe we are a few short days from heading back home. We miss everyone back home a lot, but I can tell you that each one of our team members will forever have a special place in their heart for Antigua and the people they have met here. 

God has been doing great things in and through each one of our team members! I'm so blessed to call each one a friend and I couldn't be prouder for how they have served on this trip! Tomorrow, our plan is to have all hands on deck at the radio station to try to knock out many of the production projects that are still on our "to-do" list. 

We'll talk again tomorrow night! Appreciate your continued prayers! 

Goodnight from Antigua! 

Jonny Gamet